Tag: Education
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A Holistic Approach to Education: An Introduction
A holistic approach is a theme that has consistently run through the previous sections, it is integral to the arguments made for the changes in education, however it is worth focus here to expand further on the benefits, pedagogy and purpose of making education holistic. Fundamentally the pedagogy suggests that a holistic approach should be…
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A Learner Led Approach: The Basics
If the holistic nature of education provided by experiential learning and a project based approach are assumed, then the focus of education is on the interplay between a cohesive model of learning, and the individual learning it. Experiential learning places the emphasis on holistic learning that by its nature focusses also on the moral, spiritual,…
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Why I’m not interested in trying to improve the current education system
Opinion Piece I’ve recently been talking a lot with educators about the potential to improve, and I get confronted almost exclusively with the following responses; “that’s lovely but idealistic” “that would never work in our setting” “we haven’t got the time/capacity/resources” or worst of all; “they don’t pay me to do that” I get it,…
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How can restorative behaviour management be used within the time constraints of a busy teaching day?
I was asked the question recently on Twitter; “Can you explain how a teacher who has a full timetable can have these therapeutic 1-1 conversations whilst teaching classes following each and every behaviour incident?“ This is an interesting question and makes some assumptions about behaviour that I think ned to be unpicked before we go…
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Project Based Learning: An Overview
Project based learning builds upon the foundation of experiential learning by following the pedagogy through to the level of what is being taught; where experiential learning forms the basis of a holistic view of learning where learners and learning are not seen as discreet, a project-based approach is the foundation of embedding this across the…
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Outdoor Learning: Why it should be ‘as Standard’
For millions of years, throughout human history, all learning was outdoors. It is only relatively recently that we have decided in our culture to see learning in enclosed classroom spaces as somehow essential. It should not be the case that we educate in such a way as to make ease of teaching the central focus,…
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Outdoor, Learner Led, Project Based and Experiential Learning: The Background that brings us to now.
The problems facing education are not new, nor are the concepts for innovative change, in fact the Distinguished Professor E. E. Erikson of Utah spoke of the innovations necessary in education in 1971 in New York (McMurrin 1971). 50 years on and we are still trying to meet the challenge of changing education through innovation.…
Shevek Pring 